Category: Congress

The 116th Congress was sworn in today, with the House having a Democratic majority. With this new majority, Nancy Pelosi of California was made the first female Speaker of the House… for the second time. She also served from 2007 to 2011 as Speaker. She will be leading the most diverse Congress ever, with the…

Early this week, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren announced that she is launching an exploratory committee for becoming a candidate in the 2020 Presidential Election. If she runs, the 69-year-old is expected to become part of a large pool of candidates competing for the Democratic nomination, ultimately trying to run against Republican incumbent, Donald Trump. Warren,…

In the 45th district of California, Republican incumbent Mimi Walters was declared the winner this Tuesday in the midterm election. However, Democrat Katie Porter may still have a chance at the House seat. According to the Orange County Registrar of Voters, there are an estimated 366,436 ballots left to count countywide. Mimi Walters in leading…

The crisis at the border that everyone from the media to the President himself is talking about, was 100% preventable. It was a fire created by the Trump administration and extinguished by them later on. This fire that I am referring to is the separation that took place between children and migrant families at the…

My walkout experience started at around 9:50 in morning. I happened to be near the organizers, dressed in orange, who began to shout, “the people united will not be defeated.” I ended up towards the very front of the march, people started to come in the masses. We stood there for a while, chanting, and…

On February 14, the upper middle class city of Parkland, Florida was rocked with terror when a former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School opened fire on the campus, killing 14 students and 3 teachers. The shooting also left 15 people injured. The difference between this and other shootings is how it is being…

On Monday, the Chairman of Foreign Affairs committee, Ed Royce, announced he is stepping down after the midterm elections. The next day, another Orange County Representative, Darrell Issa, said that he was going to pursue other things after the end of his current term. All the Districts in Orange County are currently occupied by four…

The 2018 Agenda When Trump boarded Air Force One from his Mar-A-Lago resort back to Washington on Monday, correspondents were told domestic policy with a focus on infrastructure and immigration would be at the top of the administration’s agenda. Media outlets have been mumbling the idea of how bipartisanship…

Its wintertime, and for many around the country snowflakes sprinkle the ground of their front porch. But this holiday season the focus is going to be on other snowflakes, the political ones. For starters, the Urban Dictionary (yes, I did sink that low) defines snowflake as “an extremely fragile individual -often, but not always associated…

Tom Steyer is a liberal billionaire who is known for his advertisements on things such as climate change. His latest venture, trying to get Donald Trump impeached. He is doing this by spending $20 million on televised messages to the American people, listing losing backed reasons as to why Trump is unfit to be President….